UK Jewish Leaders Join Calls for Britain to Boycott Durban 3 / Justin Cohen

Jun 11, 2011
Britain this week came under renewed pressure to boycott an event marking the 10th anniversary of a notorious UN anti-racism conference after the US announced it would not take part and British Jewish leaders urged the UK to pull out.

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last December to hold a summit in New York this September, a decade after the UN event in Durban, South Africa, descended into an Israel-bashing forum.


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